Kevin Myers
Autor/a de Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast
Sobre l'autor
Kevin Myers is a journalist who was born on March 30, 1947 in Leicester, England. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1969. He began working as a journalist for Irish broadcaster RTE' and reported from Northern Ireland. He later worked for three of Ireland's major newspaprers: the Irish mostra'n més Times, the Sunday Times, and Irish Independent. A collection of his columns, An Irishman's Diary, was published in 2000. His title's include: Banks of Green Willow, Watching the Door, A Single Headstrong Heart and Grown-Up Faith: The Big Picture for a Bigger Life. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Kevin Myers
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- Obres
- 13
- Membres
- 268
- Popularitat
- #86,166
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 41
- Llengües
- 1
The author readily acknowledges the debt he owes to David McKittrick (and others) for that unsurpassed work of scholarship: “Lost Lives” a cool factual account of each and every one of 3,697 deaths attributable to The Troubles, a number that has continued to creep upwards, mercifully at a much attenuated rate. I purchased Lost Lives four years ago, and have until now largely ignored it, a massive work of reference running to almost 1700 pages its destined to be (deservedly), the principal biographical source for those who died. Even disregarding the sheer size of the book no one could read it through, its just too lachrymose to take in more than a few pages at a time. Brief commentary from victims relatives, combined with a totally non-judgmental account of events makes it poignant to a point beyond despair. From the toddlers to the pensioners who lost their lives, the innocents and their murderers, often soon victims themselves, the police UDR and army men and women killed in the line of duty, McKtterick’s record, records it all and in the stillness of distanced contemplation makes the most damning case against all violence. Lost Lives provides architecture for Kevin Myer’s book (sub-title “Cheating Death in 1970’s Belfast), though their purposes differ. Have McKittrick with you as you read Myers, I found it valuable, for in their different ways they add enormously
to each other.… (més)